"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance..." - Quote by Jane Austen
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.
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“Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.”
“He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.”
“To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.”
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“The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.”
“I ate 'umble pie with an appetite.”
“No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.”
More on Deception
“The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.”
“Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding they brav'ry in their rotten smoke?”
“Civilisation is hooped together, broughtUnder a rule, under the semblance of peaceBy manifold illusion.”